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(Continued from page 11) their feet, closed the gap on Hansen. Torleif ain't number one around the Husqvarna factory for nothing and he was moving -fast. With five minutes to go, Marty went past him, on the inside. A roar of acclaim went up from the stands the likes of which you just don't hear at motocross courses. Tripes held on for the five minutes, building up a slig,h t lead to take second, and the overall win. After he got hy Hansen, it was almost anticlimactic, but not quite. Marty was happy, his father looked the even happier, Yamaha representatives were about to burst and those who had never seen an Inter-AMA, or any other kind of motocross, before trooping in to the Coliseum had seen one devil of a good show. In the National Support Class, Bryar Holcomb managed to cap off a current hot streak, riding John DeSoto's former Suzuki to two firsts and a second. His main competition seemed to come from Gary Chaplin, first moto winner, when his Maico was running. Bryar was constan tly pressued by Barry Higgins and, to a lesser extend by Bob Hershey who was plagued with crashes and mechanical breakages. (Sorry about that, Papa Wealey.) Bryar seemed kind of hang loose and very fast abou t the whole thing. He is, needless to say, happy with his new ride. Barry Higgins gave CZ their top place with consistent, trouble-free rides in the last two motos to finish second overall. The track held up very well, the promoters made the riders and spectators happy, Super Joe made his jump successfully, laying his Triumph down in the haybales after getting back down on the landing ramp this time, and all of Cycle News pre-race picks .were wrong. How do you figure on a rider with no track record in international competition to take first overall? You can't, unless you've seen Marty Tripes cow-trail around an MX course faster than anybody else is racing over it. INTER-AMA MOTOCROSS Los Angeles Coliseum Los Angeles, Calif. July 9,1972 250 INTERNATIONAL Marty Tripes Torllef Hansen Arne Kring Hake" Andersson Gary Jones Jim Weinert Torsten Hallman Dave Bickers Rex staten Stuart Nun" 500 NATIONAL arya, Holcomb Barry Higgins Gary Chaplin Bruce Torbett DeWayne Jones Dave Longcor Lars Larrson Bob Hershey Eddie Cole Jeff Wecker r----·-------.. l I Yam Hus Hus Yam Yam Yam Yam CZ CZ CZ Yam CZ Suz CZ Mal Hus Yam Sui Hus CZ 1 1 I I I Before you read this ad, lo.ok on the other side of this page and read our offer for the new and exciting 1972 MOTORCYCLE COMPETITION GUIDEBOOK FOR CALIFORNIA. Dig it? Good. Now all you have to do is fill in the handy coupon (on the other side), clip out this whole mess and fold it up so the mail panel shows. Then staple, tape or glue it all together with your money inside and drop it in your local mail box. That's all. We'll rush you all the guide boo" yo. want. 1 1 RC PEri The first turn was so tight you were lucky to be holding your own handlebars. From the grandstand By Bruce Flanders Cycle News called me during the week and asked if I were going to the Yamaha Inter-AMA Superbowl of Motocross. Hek, yes! said 1. They asked me to put my impressions down on paper. 'By way of some qualification, I have been to and announced at over 45 motocrosses this year, including places like Lions', Corona, Ascot and the like. First impression: TWO DOLLARS TO PARK? Inflation is really going to work in this department. The track was a challenge to any motocrosser. The first thing I thought when I saw it was that it would be an aholute parade from start to finish. It turned out that I was terribly wrong because every hotshoe that wanted to get by a slower rider could find room at will. Vic Wilson and his crew from Saddleback are to be congratulated on putting in a track that not only held up well but survivea the changes forced On it by the riders and Coliseum officials. The SGVMC members did a great job of flagging and restringing all the banners every time the ride... would wipe out a section. The finish flagman did a great job of confusing everyone by waving the flag so fast the nobody could figure out for sure which flag he was using. John l-!uetter, you're to be congratulated too. I understand you laid some interesting info on the fans but where I was sitting the sound system was inaudible over the din. Speaking of sound systems, the audio at the Coliseum left lots to be desired. It's not the fault of Larry Huffman because he did the best job possible under rather trying circumstances. The fault lies with the fact that the sound in the bowl is probably adequate when twenty-two sets of shoulder pads hit at full speed but can't cut it when thirty-five .two·strokes :l"' getting it 00, silencers or , II _ not. If you were sitting in one of the many places where the speakers weren't even turned on, you missed some interesting poop. It was a shame that there wasn't room at the starting gate for all the riders. A second row start has got to be a terrible disadvantage, especially when a little over 50 yards later it filtered down to one abreast. Speaking of tigh t first comers, that one at the 'bowl just had to be painf'hl. How would you like to look down at your handlebars and not even be able to find them in the confusion? Of course, the other guys on this page are raving about Mr. Marty Tripes, but unless you were there you couldn't have seen that kid standing on the pegs wbat seemed like 90% of the time, when he flat did the job on all the big names. While on the subject of big names, where in the heck were th ose two dudes .that ride factory Suzooks? I ended up sitting next to (and helping when he needed to make a head call) Larry Huffman and nobody ever told him. It's a shame when the announcer isn't given proper info. , A stopwatch told an in teresting tale about "Mr. Hard Luck from Lions" Bryar Holcomb. It seems that some of his times were faster than the 250 big names. Sure, I know he was on a 400 but it was not a horsepower track. And now a word about "Super Joe". Why didn't you warm your Triumph up in the pits instead of making seven or eight warm-up passes? It seems that the same man who set up the sound system did the job of rearranging the ligh ting in the bowl. The east end was, at best, poorly lit. Mike Goodwin and the crew from LeisureTech did a fine job, especially when you stop to consider just how many obstac·les were placed in their way as they went along. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to see another one of tbe~ "Superbowls" next year. IFO -------~ . I Permit No. 2914 Long Beach, Calif. I, '1 1I 1 ~-.:A=';';:::~...- I BUSINESS REPLY MAIL CYCLE NEWS PRODUCTS P.O. B." ••B LO~9 .each, Ca. 90801. 1--------------'"'" 'OeD ""'.. I I r------------·FOLD HERE FIRST'--------------I FIRST CLASS I I I1 1 II I I ----------1 I ~ II I ~ - ~ N Cll :; .., > ....

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